Home › Orthodox Church Of Czech And Slovakia

Orthodox Church Of Czech And Slovakia

Orthodox Church of Czech and Slovakia (Pravoslavn Crkve eskch v zemi na Slovensku a)
Autocephaly / Autonomy recognized	1951 by the Church of Russia , 1998 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Current primate	Christophorus
Headquarters	Preov and Prague
Primary territory	Czech Republic, Slovakia
Rite	Byzantine
Language (s) liturgical (s)	Slavonic
Calendar	Gregorian / Julian revised
Estimated population	Czech Republic: 23053 (2001), Slovakia: 50363 (2001)
change

Orthodox Cathedral in Prague

The Orthodox Church of Czech Republic and Slovakia is an autocephalous jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church. The primate of the Church carries the title of Metropolitan of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (current holder: Christophorus , archbishop of Prague, from May 2nd 2006 ).

Summary

1 History
2 Organization
3 See also
4 Primates of the Orthodox Church in Czech and Slovakia
- External 4.1 Links

/ / History

On 25 September 1921 , Matthias Pavlik, former priest Roman Catholic , was consecrated bishop of Moravia and Silesia in Belgrade by Patriarch Dimitri, primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It takes the name of Gorazde, which was that of a disciple and successor of Method , the vangilisateur Moravia. He was canonized St. Gorazd of Prague.

In 1923 , the Patriarch of Constantinople grants autonomy to the Church of Czechoslovakia and appoints Bishop Sabbazd Metropolitan. The majority of the faithful continue to follow Bishop Gorazd.

During WWII, the church underwent a very severe repression and many victims including Bishop Gorazd.

In 1951 , the Russian Orthodox Church granted him autocephaly. This status will be recognized only by Constantinople in 1998.

Organization

The division of Czechoslovakia into two new independent states from ¹ January 1993 has led to structural changes in the Church. It has two administrative agencies: the Metropolitan Council of the Czech Republic is headquartered in Prague (chair: the archbishop of Prague) and the Metropolitan Council of Slovakia is headquartered in Preov (President: The Archbishop of Preov and Slovakia). A Holy Synod is unique, however, maintained that the president holds the title of Metropolitan of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It may be that the Archbishop of Prague or the Archbishop of Preov and Slovakia.

Orthodox Church in Czech Republic

Eparchy of Prague
Eparchy of Olomouc-Brno

78 parishes

Orthodox Church in Slovakia

Eparchy of Presov
Eparchy of Koice Michalovce-

171 parishes

Primates of the Orthodox Church in Czech and Slovakia

Founder:

Gorazd of Prague (holy martyr)

Metropolitans of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Eleftherios Prague ( 9 December 1951 - 28 November 1955 )
Jean Prague ( May 17 1956 - 1964 )
Dorothy Prague ( October 25 1964 - 30 December 1999 )
Nicolas ^I. Preov ( 14 April 2000 - 30 January 2006 )
Christophorus Prague (since 2 May 2006 )

External Links

The churches of the seven councils (Orthodox, Orthodox Church or Communion)
Autocephalous churches	Constantinople Alexandria Antioch Jerusalem Russia Serbia Romania Bulgaria Georgia Cyprus Greece Albania Poland Czech-Slovakia America *
Autonomous Churches	Sinai Finland Estonia (Patr. ecumenical) * Estonia (Patr. Moscow) * EGL. Russian transboundary Ukraine (Patr. Moscow) * Moldova (Patr. Moscow) * Latvia (Patr. Moscow) * Belarus (Moscow Patr.) * Moldavia (Romania Patr.) * Ohrid (Patr. Serbia) * Japan * China *
Independent churches noncanonical	Ukraine (Kiev Patr.) Ukraine (gl. autocph.) Macedonia Montenegro Italy Belarus (gl. autocph.) EGL. calend-old. Greece EGL. Old calend. Romania EGL. Old ritual. Russian EGL. Turkish Orthodox EGL. Orthodox France EGL. Orthodox French
Note	* Church autocephalous or whose autonomy is not universally recognized.
See also: two councils of churches - churches of three councils - the Eastern Catholic Churches